VP of Business Development Phigenics LLC Warrenville, Illinois, United States
Description: Management of water systems servicing unit operations within sterile processing is vital to assuring the reprocessing of medical instrumentation safely and efficiently. Successful management is the outcome of executing a defensible and documented plan of maintenance and operations of capable system design. Water systems should be monitored and validated to confirm system performance. Data-driven documentation of water system quality and safety will provide a defensible assurance of safety and efficiency.
Objectives: 1) Assurance of safe water quality for medical device reprocessing 2) Achieve alignment with guidance provided by ANSI/ASHRAE Std. 188 and AAMI TIR34:2014/(R)2017 through the implementation of a water management program
Methods: The process of integrating MDR into an existing water management program is to augment the existing 7 Steps as prescribed by ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 188 with additional considerations addressed in AAMI TIR34:2014/(R)2017.